Jazz Archive

The Jazz & Soul Safari - an annual celebration of Jazz and Soul Music in East Africa will be hosting renown Jazz Musician Kirk Whalum and RnB artists Karyn White and Gerald Albright for this year's edition of the festival on November 2nd, 2015 at the Kampala Serena Hotel. This is the eighth edition of the annual Nile Gold Jazz Safari project conceived by TShaka ‘Roots’ Mayanja in 2008.

Safaricom has finally announced the main act for this year's series of Safaricom Jazz Festival concerts happening on 29th August 2015. Salif Keita will be the headline artist with Gogo Simo band also slated to perform at the event.

Although the Jazz scene in Kenya has been growing, it is yet to be mentioned in the same breath as South Africa when speaking about places in Africa where Jazz is vibrant. Here are 10 Kenyan Jazz musicians in no particular order.